I’ve been doing a lot of sitting on my arse recently – you’ll have probably seen why – and one of the various places that’s played host to said arse these past few weeks has been the Caledonian Sleeper train, from London…

Facebook reminded me of something great yesterday. On 27th April 2011, I tentatively walked through the door of a popular Zumba class near my house with a friend. I’d heard about Zumba before but assumed it was basically a bunch…

The first three lines are always the hardest. When I was at school, college and uni I used to sit and stare at an empty sheet of paper or blank screen and type/delete/retype the opening sentence of an essay or…